there you said it: you got concusions from other sports. so why single out football as the worst thing ever?

Because football is the most studied and has one of the highest (if not the actual highest) rates of head trauma per time played.

Rugby and ice hockey are certainly bad, but at least the impacts are generally limited to play near the ball/puck, whereas with American football, essentially every player has an impact on every play (WR blocking on rush plays, etc).

Certainly, football isn't the only thing people do that leads to head injuries.

But if it is significantly worse than other sports, why not single it out as the worst thing ever?

Several sports increase the risk of CTE, but football has been more studied, I think because the incidence of obviously impared former players is higher than in other sports.

> The fact that they're a repeated part of the game and not occasional incidents is very, very bad.

Due to the number of concussions per minute played. It could be worse (boxing), but it's not difficult to see how some sports are far riskier than others

CTE isn’t caused by concussions. Hence the rest of their comment.

Is it not worse?